Railway box freight car



April 30, 1929- G. R. JOUGHINS RAILWAY BOX FREIGHT 01m Filed Sept. 14, 1927 zl llfllll'lidoo Patented Apr. 30, 1929.

UNITED STATES .GEORGE R. JOUGHINS, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

RAILWAY BOX FREIGHT CAR.

Applicationfiled September 14, 1927. Serial No. 219,490.

My invention embraces the construction of steel railway box car bodies having self supporting sides, of pressed forms of corrugated steel plates which entirely eliminates the usual side sills and the usual side framework consistingof steel struts and braces and the use of lumber or other siding, with the objeet o'tf simplifying the construction of said cars and of materially reducing the number of parts and the amount of labor involved in their manufacture.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is an outside side elevation of the ear. Figure 2, on a larger scale, a half section transverse elevation at AA, and a halt section through the side at B-B. Fig. 3 is a small portion of the side sheets at C-C.

Fig. 4: is an elevation, Fig. 5 a plan, Fig. 6

a section on line D-D Fig. 4, and Fig. 7 an end view of the key of the arch.

The side sheets are designed to he of sheet steel, heavy enough to be self supporting,ineluding the proportion of the load usually sustained by the side sills.

In the drawing the sheets are shown having an arch formation springing from the body bolsters 1; the shank 2 of the arch being termed of corrugations in the sheet steel. The lower parts ot'the car sides, 3, form the chord of the arch and may be flanged inwardly, to increase its tensile area, as shown at 4., and it maybe further strengthened under the doorway by reentorcements, 15, rigidly attached to the steel plate. The shank of the arch may be curved as at, 5, or straight as at 6. The key of the arch shown at 7,

over the doorway. Its lateral ends are fiattened and spread out, 8, and rigidlysecured to the shanks. Short corrugations are shown in the face of the key, as at 9, to fit corresponding corrugations in the sheets asshown. The remaining part of the sheets above the doorway being preferably left plain. Rivets, 10, are used to rigidly connect the key to the sheets, and, as the key is also a joint plate, it' connects the sheets to each other.

The filling in, or remaining parts of. the sides are preterahly'ot corrugated steelsheets, preterablyintegral with the arch so far as possible, to give sidewisestitfness and alsoto to i provide flexibility for expansion and contrace t-ion where needed. M r I} The side sheets are shownturned inwardly at 4. and may be further turned upwards at r 9 trrsupport the fioorin A strut to support the end of the car body e from the body bolster is shown at 10, it is also pi'etera'bly of corrugated form pressed in the p ate. 7

the shanks of an areh springing from said 7o]..-.

bolsters and ineet-ing above the doorways to form a key, and with a lower chord to com plete aseli sustaining arch, substantially as described. a 4 1 A. railway box fr sheets which forn'l'a continuous girderfrom end to end, situated upon the body bolsters and having portionsof said side sheet-s pressed into corrugations integrally forum so ing the shanks of an arch springing from said: holsters and meeting above the doorways to form a key, and the lower edge of said side sheets left plain and unco r'rIu gated to form' a lower chord or tie rod integral Withsaid side 35 I sheets substantially as described.

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l1 arethc center sills, 12 the intermediate Ight car havingits .75 sales constructed oi .self'supportingmetal 

